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FC disgusting practices in the Forest of Dean?

Check out the graph mid way down. There's a lot of 'big' pigs shot when sows are either heavily pregnant or with dependant young. Also look closely at the pattern of the graph. No seasonal consideration from the FC. While the website author is clearly biased against the FC, if the information is accurate I'm disgusted and horrified.

I got talking to a game dealer from down there last year who has the contract for all the boar shot by the FC in the forest of Dean and I was amazed at the numbers he reackoned were shot and passed through his doors each week, if I rememeber correctly it was about 30 a week which seems far too many be maybe there are more than we think.

if you look at the weights it's just about slaughter, shoot on sight. Pregnant sows, sows with young or whatever. Some of the data shows they likely shot a sow with young following first and followed up on the young around her. Just terrible, depriving young of their mother in such circumstances amounts to an offence because of the suffering element. I'm sure they would say this is not the case.

They do the same with deer under licence so why any difference with Boar.

Total eradication is what's needed. Boar cause havoc in Germany and they only struggle to kill 400,000 a year when they really need to achieve double that in order to stand still on population control.

They do the same with deer under licence so why any difference with Boar.

Total eradication is what's needed. Boar cause havoc in Germany and they only struggle to kill 400,000 a year when they really need to achieve double that in order to stand still on population control.

Hence their plan on using the Army in 2012 to cull two million.

Stan

Stan is correct on this. The UK should have a zero tolerance policy on wild boar. We are not shooting enough as it is. Yes it is awful when a animal suffers but we really don't need them running around doing serious damage in large numbers. You think deer damage pheasant pens and crops you should see what boar will do.